Boston Globe Breaks for Barack, Des Moines Register for Hillary
Published December 16, 2007
'Tis the season of giving and two political endorsements have been given out today: the Boston Globe has endorsed Barack Obama for president.
From the endorsement editorial:
The most sobering challenges that face this country — terrorism, climate change, disease pandemics — are global. America needs a president with an intuitive sense of the wider world, with all its perils and opportunities. Barack Obama has this understanding at his core. The Globe endorses his candidacy in New Hampshire’s Democratic presidential primary Jan. 8.
And the Des Moines Register however, has today endorsed Hillary Clinton with these words:
The choice, then, comes down to preparedness: Who is best prepared to confront the enormous challenges the nation faces — from ending the Iraq war to shoring up America’s middle class to confronting global climate change?
These two newspapers have writ large what has already been spoken aloud: experience versus intuition and likability. What do endorsements mean? What don’t they mean? They mean everything to every candidate. If you were trailing it would hoist your sails. If you were in smooth-sailing mode then they are the gust of wind needed for your campaign to maintain its momentum. Don’t let anyone tell you it didn't matter. It does. Don’t let them tell you it didn't hurt to not get such an endorsement. It does. What is a campaign without promises or promise for that matter? That is what endorsements mean — promise of more to come.
Speaking of more — the Netroots had hoped that the Register would endorse Obama. But having lived in Illinois, the state right next to Iowa, I know it is mighty whitey in Iowa. That’s not to say he can’t win the state. But winning the endorsement of its paper might be another matter. If one compares Des Moines to Boston, well, there is really no comparison. Boston 1, Des Moines 0. But who's counting? Illinois is counting and among Democrats Obama is beating Clinton by a margin of 2:1 with Edwards a distant third. I ask you, if a man can't win his state, what can he win?
- Boston Globe Breaks for Barack, Des Moines Register for Hillary
- Published: December 16, 2007
- Type: News
- Section: Politics
- Filed Under: Politics: U.S., Politics: Local and Regional, Politics: Elections and Candidates, Culture: Media
- Writer: Heloise
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Obama is leading now, but once the world knows that Oprah makes very bad judgment calls, Obama may start losing his lead.
truth14,
You have really just made the case for Barack:
What you may not know, but would if you had read my book "Dinner With DaVinci" since I trace the past lives of many presidents and others close to them that one of the prerequisites for being president is having so called ties to the scary "occult."
Speaking of ties to the occult the very JFK was HPB. It don't get more occult than that. I also trace FDR. There is/was a good Web site by someone who made the JFK/HPB connection also, besides myself. I have lots of links at my yahoo group and other places.
But I am not saying much online anymore. I am getting it together in a book. Why, because the very writers who are complaining about not being paid are stealing my shit and ideas like crazy and I ain't getting a penny for it!
I wrote "Barack Who?" for example and now there is a show "Samantha Who?" I will have to write a researched article about online writer influence one day. So, don't get me started.
Heloise
Oh, lest I forget: Hillary was Calamity Jane, and Bill was Wild Bill Hickock. They were gunslingers rather than occulist. Bill was killed by a coward, shot in the head like other presidents. This is the reason he did not die nor killed in office. He had paid the karma forward, unlike JFK. I document it in "Dinner" but I ran out of space to give it full treatment.
Heloise
Heloise,
Blavatsky? Helen Blavatsky returned as Kennedy? And you are the returning spirit of John Kennedy? So you are the returning spirit of Helen Blavatsky down the road a ways? Do I comprehend this right, or have I missed something somewhere?
they are both going to lose, so it doesnt really matter
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I work for a newspaper and it just bugs the crap out of me that candidates fawn all over the editorial boards to get endorsements, but spend such a small part of ad dollars in the same newspapers.
Conclusion: the campaign managers only want the endorsement so they can run TV spots. The candidates think newspaper readers are important. The media buyers don't want to buy newspapers because it involves work.
Who's stupider? The newspapers for thinking readers care? The candidate for thinking the endorsement matters? The media buyers who think newspaper readers aren't worth pursuing.
All of the above.